Featured series 
Tag: Law
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Work & Economy
Can Trump fire Fed chairman?
Law professor and former Fed Board member says it’s possible but likely market reaction should give pause
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Campus & Community
Harvard files lawsuit against Trump administration
Filing argues freeze of research funding violates First Amendment, laws, procedures
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Nation & World
‘If you’re boring, you’re not going to educate.’
Randall Kennedy has blazed a path as an open-minded, nuanced, and independent thinker
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Campus & Community
Harvard won’t comply with demands from Trump administration
Changes pushed by government ‘unmoored from the law,’ Garber says. ‘The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.’
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Nation & World
Leveraging social capital to defend worthy causes, people in need of representation
Legal scholar and Law School grad returns for student panel
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Nation & World
EPA plans target climate change initiatives
Environmental law experts say rollbacks will reverse advances in recent decades
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Campus & Community
Cutting drug costs, embracing aging, demystifying AI — and more research ideas
8 graduate students pitch their work in Harvard Horizons talks
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Nation & World
When arguing cases before Supreme Court is your job
Former solicitors general recall what it’s like representing U.S. government amid shifts on bench
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Nation & World
What happens to your data if 23andMe collapses?
Health law policy expert says biotech firm’s uncertain future shows need for protections of personal, genetic information
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Nation & World
Did the TikTok ban go too far?
Law School debate examines potential national security threat, 75-day extension issued by Trump
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Nation & World
We’re already forgetting what 2020 was like
5 years later, sociologist urges us to confront lessons from pandemic
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Campus & Community
Student-led projects tackle campus divisions
Presidential initiative backs efforts to encourage, facilitate constructive dialogue
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Nation & World
‘Existential questions’ around U.S. climate policy, but resolve, too
Analysts weigh in on Paris withdrawal and other Trump actions
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Nation & World
Who sustains the rule of law?
The question is a personal one for voters, scholar argues — or should be
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Nation & World
Class surges as factor in who gets sent to prison
Incarceration rates fall for Black Americans, soar for white Americans without college education, finds study
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Nation & World
Who’s softer on crime? Democrats or Republicans?
Turns out neither. New research finds mayors on both sides mixed in implementing effective policies.
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Health
Gambling problems are mushrooming. Panel says we need to act now.
With recent leap in legalized sports betting and online options, public health experts outline therapeutic, legislative strategies
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Nation & World
IGs oversee most federal agencies. Why not the Supreme Court?
Inspector general would boost accountability, trust in federal judiciary, argues Glenn Fine in talk promoting new book, ‘Watchdogs’
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Nation & World
‘Could I really cut it?’
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson discusses new memoir, ‘unlikely path’ from South Florida to Harvard to nation’s highest court
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Nation & World
For this ring, I thee sue
Unhappy suitor wants $70,000 engagement gift back. Now court must decide whether 1950s legal standard has outlived relevance.
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Nation & World
What the judge was thinking and what’s next in Trump documents case
Obama-era White House counsel says key point in Nixon decision should have ended inquiry
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Nation & World
Lawyers reap big profits lobbying government regulators under the radar
Study exposes how banks sway policy from shadows, by targeting bureaucrats instead of politicians
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Nation & World
Environmental law expert voices warning over Supreme Court
Richard Lazarus sees conservative majority as threat to protections developed over past half century
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Nation & World
Up next for Supreme Court on abortion: Idaho
Justices to hear case on near-complete ban amid shifting legal landscape after overturn of Roe
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Nation & World
Could troubling police, media response to Stuart murder happen again?
Reporters who revisited 35-year-old case that reignited racial tensions in Boston say Black community sees no reason why it couldn’t
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Nation & World
‘Chevron deference’ faces existential test
Jody Freeman pinpoints key question in case before SCOTUS: ‘Who decides when laws aren’t clear — courts or agencies?’
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Nation & World
‘Killer robots’ are coming, and U.N. is worried
Human rights specialist lays out legal, ethical problems of military weapons systems that can target, attack targets (or people) without human guidance
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Work & Economy
Is ChatGPT more foul than fair?
Copyright expert Rebecca Tushnet discusses the growing battle between book authors and tech companies who use their books to improve generative AI products like ChatGPT without their consent or compensation.
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Nation & World
Laurence Tribe sees legal problems for Trump in Senate report
Laurence H. Tribe, one of the nation’s pre-eminent constitutional scholars, spoke to the Gazette about the Senate Judiciary Committee’s 394-page interim report that details efforts by the Trump White House to pressure senior officials in the Department of Justice to help promote false claims that the 2020 election was rife with fraud.
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Nation & World
If Randall Kennedy ran the world
Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy discusses his new book, “Say It Loud! On Race, Law, History, and Culture.”
